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by fnikacevic 457 days ago
Copyrights are owned by businesses all the time.
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Copyrights are owned by corporations as a result of either:

(1) actual human authorship and original ownership, sold to a corporation, or

(2) actual human authorship as a work for hire on behalf of the corporation, which is a special case specifically laid out in copyright law which allows someone other than the person performing the actual act of authorship to be the original copyright owner.

We pretend businesses are people all the time.
Corporations are legal persons, that's the entire point of the form.